Softened butter

Hey it’s celebration time, time to celebrate the bond of trust, loyalty, togetherness, fun, and friendship. Every first Sunday of August is celebrated as Friendship’s Day. As per wiki Friendship Day celebrations occur on different dates in different countries. The first World Friendship Day was proposed for 30 July in 1958, by the World Friendship Crusade. On 27 April 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations declared 30 July as official International Friendship Day. However, some countries, including India, celebrate Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August. In Oberlin, Ohio, Friendship Day is celebrated on 8 April each year. Some friends acknowledge each other with exchanges of gifts and cards on this day. Friendship bands are very popular in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and parts of South America.With the advent of social networking sites, Friendship Day is also being celebrated online.

T carry the celebration forward i thought to greet and treat my friends with this humble chocolate brownie with a salted caramel filling that makes it even more mean, tempting, gooey and delicious. As they say ” A brownie a day keeps the frownies away!” Hence this to all who love to smile and spread love in the world…eat dessert and spread happiness. Below is the easy recipe of salted caramel dark chocolate brownie. Do make it at home this Friendship’s day and spread love and togetherness around you.

Ingredient :

3/4cup : All purpose flour

1cup : Sugar

1/2cup : Softened butter

1/4tsp : Baking powder

1/4tsp : Salt

1/2cup : Cocoa powder

1tsp : Vanilla extract

2 : Eggs

4-5tbsp : Salted Caramel

1/2cup : Dark Chocolate Chips

Method :

Line a brownie baking tray with parchment paper and keep aside. Pre heat the oven at 200 degree C for 10 minutes. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder together and collect in a mixing bowl. In a separate mixing bowl, add sugar and butter, blend till creamy. Now add egg one at a time and blend till light and fluffy. Add vanilla extract and give a quick mix again. Now add the dry flour mix into the wet mix and fold in gently to make a smooth batter. Do not beat the batter. Add dark chocolate chips and fold in the batter nicely. Pour half the batter in the line baking tray and gently tap on the counter to settle the air bubbles. Now pour salted caramel all over the batter randomly and again add the remaining batter on top. Gently tap the pan again and place inside the oven and bake for 25 minutes or till the tooth pick comes out clean. Transfer the pan on the wire rack and let it col down completely. Now carefully hold the sides of the parchment paper and lift the brownie and place it on a plate. Cut the brownies into squares and serve with vanilla ice cream to make it more interesting.

The Bourbon biscuit sometimes referred to as a Bourbon cream is a sandwich style biscuit consisting of two thin rectangular dark chocolate–flavored biscuits with a chocolate buttercream filling. The biscuit was introduced in 1910 by the biscuit company Peek Freans, of Bermondsey, London, originator of the Garibaldi biscuit. The new name was taken from the European royal House of Bourbon. The Bourbon biscuit is the fifth most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea. In India , Britannia makes original Bourbon Biscuits, though there are various other companies that make similar ones using different names.

Recently i came across one one of co-bloggerFreda Sera Dias blog post of Home made bourbon biscuits, not just her pictures on the blog, but the recipe also fascinated me to try hands over it. As my son is a big time Bourbon lover and loves to take this biscuits for his break time in school almost daily, i just couldn’t skip making this. Freda has beautifully described the recipe in her blog and i followed her to the T. As i had never made this before hence, i kept myself restricted to what Freda did. Her recipe was easy to follow and had no scope for getting wrong. Handful of ingredients that are easily available in our house pantry and just a little labor results to this chocolate butter cream filled Bourbon biscuits that will definitely leave you craving for more.

For making Home made Bourbon Biscuit all you need is All purpose flour, fine sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, some butter, pinch of salt and some milk to knead. The dough is then wrapped in cling foil and allowed to set in refrigerator for about half an hour. Later the dough is rolled out and shaped into equal sized rectangles and pierced with tooth pick to make those traditional impression. Baked till crisp, these biscuits are then filled with cocoa butter cream spread to make sandwich biscuits.

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Hi, I'm Shaheen, born and raised in a gastronomic family where every conversation revolves around food and cooking is most relied on approximation and eyeballing the ingredients or ratios and proportions for measurements. A die heart foodie and a physiotherapist by profession, I came into blogging with a motive to pen down my experience of learning and refining in the journey with food from home and the world beyond, from street food to the fine dining, from mom's recipes to Chef's talk. Spoon Fork And Food was created on a lazy summer afternoon in the fall of 2014 in an effort to keep my sanity in check. This blog is a collection of good food and fond memories that remind me of my mum's home cooked food, those that transport me to distant moments of childhood or shared happy times with loved ones, friends and family. Recipes here are a reflection of me, my roots, who I was, who I am and who I will be as I evolve with the foods I discover, embrace and make them my own!